Department of Info Systems & Cybersec

DISS 0710 - Analytics and Business Intelligence

I. Course Information
Course: DISS 0710 - Analytics and Business Intelligence
Course Division: Doctoral
Course CRN and Section: 21764 - H01, 25556 - H02
Semester and Year: Fall 2019
Course Start and End Dates: 08/19/2019 - 12/08/2019
Semester Credit Hours: 4.0 - 5.0
Building and Room: Online Venue - CANVAS

II. Instructor Information

Professor: Sumitra Mukherjee
Email: sumitra@nova.edu
Phone: (954)262-2079
Fax: (954)262-3915
Office Hours:
Day Time Location
T 3:00pm - 4:00pm Room 4070, De Santis Building

III. Class Schedule and Location

CRN Day Date Time Location Building/Room
21764 08/19/2019 - Ft Lauderdale/Davie Online Venue-
12/08/2019 Campus CANVAS
21764 W 10/02/2019 - 3:30 PM - 5:00 Ft Lauderdale/Davie Carl DeSantis
10/02/2019 PM Campus Building-1047
21764 R 10/03/2019 - 10:30 AM - Ft Lauderdale/Davie Carl DeSantis
10/03/2019 12:00 PM Campus Building-1047
21764 F 10/04/2019 - 10:00 AM - Ft Lauderdale/Davie Carl DeSantis
10/04/2019 11:30 AM Campus Building-1047
25556 08/19/2019 - Ft Lauderdale/Davie Online Venue-
12/08/2019 Campus CANVAS
25556 W 10/02/2019 - 3:30 PM - 5:00 Ft Lauderdale/Davie -
10/02/2019 PM Campus

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 25556 R 10/03/2019 - 10:30 AM - Ft Lauderdale/Davie -
10/03/2019 12:00 PM Campus
25556 F 10/04/2019 - 10:00 AM - Ft Lauderdale/Davie -
10/04/2019 11:30 AM Campus

IV. Course Description

Principles and techniques relating to applications of analytics for organizational problem solving. The focus
is on current research in analytics and business intelligence. Topics include optimization models for
prescriptive analytics, machine learning techniques for predictive analytics, and analysis and design of
business intelligence applications.

V. Learning Outcomes
After successful completion of the course students should be able to:
1. Apply decision theory, management science, operations research, analytics, statistical learning, and
artificial intelligence techniques as a research methodology and for organizational problem solving.
2. Gain familiarity with the literature and identify research topics in analytics and business intelligence.
3. Teach graduate and undergraduate courses in related areas.

VI. Materials and Resources

Book Url: NSU Book Store
Course Required Texts and Materials:
There are no required text books for this course.
As reference material, you may find it helpful to use books on:
Management Science (e.g. Anderson, Williams, Sweeny and Martin),
Statistical Learning (e.g. James, Witten, Hastie and Tibshirani), and
Artificial Intelligence (e.g. Russell and Norvig).

VII. Course Requirements

You are expected to attend all class sessions and keep up with the material covered.
You must submit all assigned work by the specified due date.

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VIII. Course Schedule and Topic Outline
Course Schedule:
We shall meet on October 2, 3, and 4. Attendance is mandatory.
We shall hold GoToTraining sessions as needed. Attendance for these sessions is not mandatory.
I shall make recordings of our sessions available.
Topic Outline:
1. Introduction to Analytics and Business Intelligence.
2. Management science methods:
a. Constrained optimization models
b. Decision theory
3. Statistical learning methods for predictive analytics:
a. Linear regression
b. Logistic regression
c. K nearest neighbors
d. Classification tree
e. Random forest
f. Support vector machine
g. Naïve Bayes classifier
h. Artificial neural networks
i. Deep neural networks
4. Developing an idea paper for dissertation.

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 IX. Instructional Methods
Students are required to use Canvas for course material, discussions, and assignment submissions.
Apart from our scheduled cluster meeting, we may periodically hold GoToMeeting sessions as
needed. I shall make recordings of our sessions available.
You may use any software of your choice for the course.
For linear programming problems I shall use Excel’s Simplex Solver.
For machine learning I shall use Python libraries:
scikit-learn (see: https://scikit-learn.org/stable/), and
TensorFlow (see: https://www.tensorflow.org/)
I shall provide all examples in the form of Jupyter notebooks that will run on Google
Colaboratory (see: https://colab.research.google.com/notebooks/welcome.ipynb).
If you have any questions, please send me an email at sumitra@nova.edu.
We can meet in person, conduct discussions over the phone, or hold meetings using GoToTraining
when necessary.

X. Assignments
Deliverable Weight Due Date
Assignment 1 05% August 26, 2019
Assignment 2 30% October 7, 2019
Assignment 3 30% November 4, 2019
Final Exam 30% December 2, 2018
Participation in class 05% Cluster meeting
discussions

XI. Assessments
Final grade will be determined by your performance on the assigned work.
A student may not do additional work or repeat an examination or assignment to raise a grade.

XII. Grading Criteria

Final Course Grade:
There are deliverables with specified deadlines for this course.
You do not need my permission for late submissions.
Late submissions will not receive any credit.
Your final grade will be based on work submitted by the last day of the term.

Grading Scale:
93-100 90-92 87-89 83-86 80-82 77-79 73-76 70-72 0-69
A A– B+ B B– C+ C C– F

XIII. Course Policies

A student may not do additional work or repeat an examination to raise a grade.
Please let me know as soon as possible if you have difficulties keeping up with the course so that we can
take remedial action.

XIV. University Policies

Students must comply with the policies published in the school's Graduate Catalog and the NSU Student

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 Handbook, some of which are included or referenced below. The catalog is at
http://www.cec.nova.edu/documents/catalog.pdf The handbook is at
http://www.nova.edu/studentaffairs/forms/studenthbk_2016-17.pdf.
1. Standards of Academic Integrity For the university-wide policy on academic standards, see the
section Code of Student Conduct and Academic Responsibility in the NSU Student Handbook. Also see
the section Student Misconduct in the CEC catalog.
Each student is responsible for maintaining academic integrity and intellectual honesty in his or her
academic work. It is the policy of the school that each student must:
Submit his or her own work, not that of another person
Not falsify data or records (including admission materials and academic work)
Not engage in cheating (e.g., giving or receiving help during examinations; acquiring and/or
transmitting test questions prior to an examination; or using unauthorized materials, such as notes,
during an examination)
Not receive or give aid on assigned work that requires independent effort
Properly credit the words or ideas of others according to accepted standards for professional
publications (see the next section Crediting Words or Ideas)
Not use or consult paper writing services, software coding services, or similar services for the
purpose of obtaining assistance in the preparation of materials to be submitted for course
assignments or for theses or dissertations.
Not commit plagiarism (Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (2004) defines plagiarism as
"stealing or passing off ideas or words of another as one's own" and "the use of a created production
without crediting the source.") (see Crediting Words or Ideas below)
Crediting Words or Ideas
When using the exact words from another work, quotation marks must be used for short quotations (fewer
than 40 words), and block quotation style must be used for longer quotations. In either case, a proper
citation must also be provided. Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Sixth
Edition, contains standards and examples on quotation methods.
When paraphrasing (summarizing, or rewriting) the words or ideas from another work, a proper citation
must be provided. (Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Sixth Edition
contains standards and examples on citation methods. The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary
(1993) defines paraphrase as "An expression in other words, usually fuller and clearer, of the sense of a
written or spoken passage or text…Express the meaning (of a word, phrase, passage, or work) in other
words, usually with the object of clarification…". Changing word order, deleting words, or substituting
synonyms is not acceptable paraphrasing—it is plagiarism, even when properly cited. Rather than make
changes of this nature, the source should be quoted as written.
Original Work
Assignments, exams, projects, papers, theses, dissertations, etc., must be the original work of the student.
Original work may include the thoughts and words of others, but such thoughts or words must be identified
using quotation marks or indentation and must properly identify the source (see the previous section
Crediting Words or Ideas). At all times, students are expected to comply with the school's accepted
citation practice and policy.
Work is not original when it has been submitted previously by the author or by anyone else for academic
credit. Work is not original when it has been copied or partially copied from any other source, including
another student, unless such copying is acknowledged by the person submitting the work for the credit at
the time the work is being submitted, or unless copying, sharing, or joint authorship is an express part of the
assignment. Exams and tests are original work when no unauthorized aid is given, received, or used before
or during the course of the examination, reexamination, and/or remediation.
2. Writing Skills
Students must demonstrate proficiency in the use of the English language. Grammatical errors, spelling
errors, and writing that fails to express ideas clearly will affect their grades and the completion of their
academic programs. The faculty will not provide remedial help concerning grammatical errors or other
writing difficulties. It is the student's responsibility to proofread and edit his or her work, which, in both
form and content, should be letter-perfect. Work that is not properly edited will be rejected.
3. Disabilities and ADA

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 NSU complies with the American with Disabilities Act (ADA). The university's detailed policy on
disabilities is contained in the NSU Student Handbook. Student requests for accommodation based on
ADA will be considered on an individual basis. Students with disabilities should discuss their needs
with NSU's ADA Coordinator before the commencement of classes if possible.
4. Communication by Email
Students must use their NSU email accounts when sending email to faculty and staff and must clearly
identify their names and other appropriate information, e.g., course or program. When communicating with
students via email, faculty and staff members will send mail only to NSU email accounts using NSU-
recognized usernames. Students who forward their NSU-generated email to other email accounts do so at
their own risk. CEC uses various course management tools that use private internal email systems.
Students enrolled in courses using these tools should check both the private internal email system and
NSU's regular email system. NSU offers students web-based email access. Students are encouraged to
check their NSU email account and their course management email daily.
5. The Temporary Grade of Incomplete (I)
The temporary grade of Incomplete (I) will be granted only in cases of extreme hardship. Students do not
have a right to an incomplete, which may be granted only when there is evidence of just cause. A student
desiring an incomplete must submit a written appeal to the course professor at least two weeks prior to the
end of the term. In the appeal, the student must: (1) provide a rationale; (2) demonstrate that he/she has
been making a sincere effort to complete the assignments during the term; and (3) explain how all the
possibilities to complete the assignments on time have been exhausted. Should the course professor agree,
an incomplete contract will be prepared by the student and signed by both student and professor. The
incomplete contract must contain a description of the work to be completed and a timetable. The
completion period should be the shortest possible. The completion date will not typically extend beyond 30
days from the last day of the term for master's courses or beyond 60 days from the last day of the term for
doctoral courses. The incomplete contract will accompany the submission of the professor's final grade
roster to the program office. The program office will monitor each incomplete contract. When the
incomplete contract ends the course professor will assign a grade based upon the work completed. No
student may graduate with an I on his or her record.
6. Grade Policy Regarding Withdrawals
Course withdrawal requests must be submitted to the program office in writing by the student. Requests
for withdrawal must be received by the program office by the withdrawal deadline (see dates in the
academic calendar in the catalog and program brochures or websites). Withdrawals sent by email must be
sent from the student's assigned NSU email account. Requests for withdrawal received after 11:59 p.m.
EST on the withdrawal deadline date will not be accepted. Failure to attend class or participate in course
activities will not automatically drop or withdraw a student from the class or the university. Students who
have not withdrawn by the withdrawal deadline will receive letter grades that reflect their performance in
the course. When a withdrawal request is approved, the transcript will show a grade of W (Withdrawn)
for the course. Students with four withdrawals will be dismissed from the program. Depending on the
date of withdrawal, the student may be eligible for a partial refund (see the appropriate catalog section
Refund Policy Regarding Withdrawals).
7. Acceptable Use of Computing Resources
Students must comply with the university's Policy on Acceptable Use of Computing Resources (see
NSU Student Handbook).
8. Academic Progress, Grade Requirements, and Academic Standing
Students must be familiar with the school's policies, A which are contained in its catalog.
9. Student Research Involving Human Subjects
Students must be familiar with the university's policy (see paragraph in catalog).
10. Responsibility for Payment of Tuition and Fees
Once registered, students are personally responsible for the payment of their tuition and fees. Returned
checks, cancelled credit cards, employer or agency refusal to pay, ineligibility for financial aid, and other
reasons for non-payment may result in a direct bill to the student, and/or referral to a collection agency.
Payment and refund policies are based on the view that a student registering for a class is reserving a
place in that class and that tuition and fees cover the opportunity to secure that place in the class. Since no
other person can purchase that place, the student is responsible for the tuition and fees associated with it.

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 Simply not attending does not constitute a reason for non-payment.

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